AN ADMIRAL KILLED.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1917, Page 5

AN ADMIRAL KILLED.

BY HIS OWN MARINES. • u Times Service. Received March 21, 9.15 p.m. London, March 21. /etrograd states that Admiral Nje«S> pon was killed at Helaingfors by bit own marines during the revolutionary troubles.

KERMANSHAH CAPTURED. Kermanshah, which the Russians baTl taken, and which lies 220 miles fro* Bagdad, was captured by the Russian , in February of last year, but Turkist pressure compelled an evacuation earli *, in July. ' Kermanshah is important, both fa K strategical and political sense. The main '■ caravan route from Mesopotamia to T«- ■ , heran,' passing over the high Zagroa range, goes through Kermanshah, • and > there are other roads to Tabriz in the north and Kut-el-Amara. It is the centre of a populous district, and \t important as a distributing centre for a wide area. The transit trade is valued ' at. three-quarters of a million annually. Kermanshah has a population of 40.000. -. r . The route which the Russians are following is the well-known caravan route. 1 About this time last year'they advanced 1 beyond Kejind, within 155 miles of Bagin an effort to assist the British ' at Kut-el-Amara. From Kerind the road descends by a difficult and mountainom route to the Mcsopotamian plain, 500*' feet below. At one point it drops muU ' denly 1000 feet by a paved zig-zag paw,' ' ■ known as the "Gates of Zagos." This '-' pass is frequently rendered impassable by snow. After the Turkish frontier ia reached at Khanikin, the difficulties of ,>' nature disappear, and the road lies over ' "a. rich, but uncultivated, plain to Bu< " dad. i